Inside gallerist Stefan von Bartha’s art-filled Basel home
Inside gallerist Stefan von Bartha’s art-filled Basel home
Second-generation gallery owner Stefan von Bartha invites us (virtually) into his art-studded Basel home to reflect on an unconventional childhood, eclectic collection and building on 50 years of his family’s eponymous gallery
Exterior view of von Bartha gallery in Basel, 2020.
Photography: Ben Koechlin
In Stefan von Bartha’s childhood, everything was about art, and very little was conventional. The second-generation owner of von Bartha gallery first graced the booths of Art Basel as a one-month-old baby. He began attending studio visits with his parents aged six, skipping school with a range of ‘wild’ excuses for why school had been ‘cancelled’. ‘I was always more interested in spending time with people, experiencing art and going to shows,’ he says over Zoom from Basel.